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Downtime Counts: Give Kids a Break

Published on: December 30, 2013

So -- researchers are finding that kids need to play pretty much like they need to eat and breathe, and that cutting back on recess at school to raise those test scores may not be the most spectacular idea ever conceived.

As I would say crankily, after a day of staring at my computer screen with nary a walk nor a coffee break to interrupt the tedium: Duh!

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